tomato coupe

What's a car repair store?

Rolla

Thanks, Dad. I've been getting along just fine for 62 years.

Camilo

I'm sorry. I guess I misunderstood when you wrote "All the innovations in bicycle development are truly unnecessary however advantageous they may be."

sjanzeir

It's just like a bicycle repair "store," only bigger, louder, and greasier.

livedarklions

I don't think you owe an apology. You tried to interpret that sentence reasonably. The problem was the incredibly poorly written sentence that really makes no sense whatsoever.

livedarklions

"Car repair store" sounds like a phrase from Google Translate.

sjanzeir

I'm sorry, but are you saying that we'd all have been better off with Ashtabula cranks? By that same token, are you saying that we all could've gotten by just fine without the cutting-edge innovation that was the cotter pin spindle? And that the square taper bottom bracket had been wrought by Satan himself? That we've all been living a lie?

sjanzeir

🙄 Not my phrase. Read the excerpt I quoted. Hence the quotation marks.

livedarklions

I know, I just thought we were riffing on rydabent's unfortunate word choice.

sjanzeir

😏 And I thought that you were riffing on the possibility that Google Translate is a tool that I use in my profession as a translator! 😆

Camilo

I appreciate that and I agree. Trying in writing to reflect my tendency to be sarcastic when I said "sorry" followed by quoting the sentence I interpreted in my earlier post. This internet business can be hard. It is kind of ironic because I happen to agree that a lot of complicated technology is just unnecessary.... for me. And I too often wish for, in the example of a car, the reliability and comfort of modern cars without features that I don't need and make it more difficult to use the features I do want. But I'm just one person of the millions who make the market, and I accept that. I certainly don't wish for the very simple technology of my old '65 Belvedere which in 1972 was already an outdated POS. I could fix it though, sometimes without correct parts. I gladly accept the complex modern stuff over the uncomfortable, unreliable and inefficient older stuff.

Panecis

Makes sense~

livedarklions

Quite the opposite. I remembered your profession from a previous post, and thought you'd enjoy a Google
​​​​​Translate knock. I don't know what your first language is, but I have absolutely nothing but admiration for your English prose.

Rydabent is from Nebraska. I grew up in the Midwest. I can't speak to usage in other countries, but in the U.S., the idiom is definitely "repair shop". Items to be used there are often called " shop ______", like shop towels and shop vacs. A store might have a repair department, but I've never heard anyone say "repair store".
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sjanzeir

Thank you. Hence the quotation marks

DMC707

Nice !

Fredo76

I may never make use of such a wonder as a wireless dropper seatpost, but they have re-calibrated my idea of what is an expensive seatpost. I used to think that ~$250 was expensive, for a spring seatpost, but now that I've seen >$800 seatposts, I know how seatpost fetishists must feel. Unless maybe they are RICH! I managed to get myself a top-line bicycle as a teenager 50 years ago, but now I can't really even afford a nice seatpost. It's OK though, I still have my bicycle, and it's better than ever! 21 speeds, 11 more than before!

There is a LOT of new that is too new for me, apparently. Oh, well. Y'all have a nice one!